So with a name like that, you can be pretty confident you know what’s in store. And you’d be right. We don’t know much about Fuck Tornadoes after they popped up in our Soundcloud feed, but a quick visit to their Facebook page seems to suggest that they’re a Swedish punk band with LA connections and have just released a single called Hey Y’all backed with … Continue reading Introducing >>> Fuck Tornadoes
Drenge’s first single from forthcoming album Undertow, the brutally catchy We Can Do What We Want was undoubtedly the best thing we’d heard from them to date. Follow up single is the equally bruising Never Awake and whets the appetite for the new release (out 17th April) even further. Try it on for size… . Continue reading Drenge – Never Awake
Philadelphia, PA heavy psych quartet Ecstatic Vision have recently completed work on their forthcoming full-length debut album. It is an acid-tinged mix of trance inducing, primitive African tribal and heavy psych a la Hawkwind, Goat and Amon Düül II. Listen and groove to Astral Plane here. . Continue reading MM Shorts 679: Ecstatic Vision
Moon Mirage is the new album from Trans Van Santos, the latest incarnation of acid gospel visionary Mark Matos and his transcendent tunes. Formerly head of rambling San Francisco psych-folk collective the Family Folk Explosion, psychedelic anti-band Os Beaches, and dusty desert rockers Campo Bravo —Matos has spent decades chasing his muse. Weary eyed and ragged on the old road he had a vision and was … Continue reading Mad Mackerel Recommends… Trans Van Santos
Twisted Arrow is the debut single from Belfast-based Arborist (aka songwriter Mark McCambridge) and features Kim Deal of The Breeders on backing vocals. It is a fabulous slice of rolling, countrified folk and Deal’s hushed and plaintive vocal adds weight to a familial tale of detachment and is the perfect counterpoint to McCambridge’s sharp delivery. Highly recommended this one. Stream it here. Continue reading MM Shorts 678: Arborist
Pearl And The Beard’s beguiling mix of indie, folk, and orchestral pop has long been popular here at MM, and the trio have released a new single, the upbeat, soaring Again Animal which will feature on their upcoming long player Beast. Have a listen… . Continue reading Pearl And The Beard – Again Animal
In April, Leeds based Post War Glamour Girls will follow up the release of last year’s much acclaimed album Pink Fur with a brand new track Southpaw Stance, released as a split 7” single with Battle Lines through Hide & Seek Records. Mixing a glam stomp with post-punk theatrics and intelligent lyrics that are as abrasive as they are abstract, the single calls to mind the best of … Continue reading Post War Glamour Girls – Southpaw Stance
Duke Garwood’s soulful, stripped-bare sound has been receiving much acclaim for his fifth album Heavy Love, his first for Heavenly Recordings. The word looks set to continue to spread with new single Disco Lights, which has had an appropriately psychedelic treatment for the video. Watch it here. . Continue reading New Video: Duke Garwood – Disco Lights
Taking their name from a combination of literary references and Spanish that when combined roughly translates to ‘silver tongued devils,’ Kingston, New York’s Galanos music is darkly seductive and coldly aloof at the same time. Wait For It is the debut single off of their LP Vacation Cannons, steeped in the solo sounds of Stiv Bators and early Lords of the New Church, the cinematic … Continue reading MM Shorts 677: Galanos
Former Standard Fare frontwoman Emma Kupa releases her first new material in three years, the mini album Home Cinema; six songs of spritely jangle-folk-indie-country, about family, death, drink problems, holocaust survivors and communism. Have a listen to a couple of tracks here, and order the record via Bandcamp here. . . Continue reading Introducing >>> Emma Kupa
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